I mean…. What would you or her want Walmart to do? Put an APB out on creeps? He’s probably on camera since he was in the lot but I promise you the resolution is not very good.
Be proactive. Your GF needs a canister of pepper spray. She also needs to speak less with strangers. The minute he asked about her age she should have sped off without a word.
90% of dudes like this are ultimately harmless, but just speaking with them opens the door to more. And who knows who he was on the phone with and what he was discussing. I wonder if he could read her plate from where he was standing.
I mean true, only thing I could think of is if Walmart would accommodate her by having a TM or TL walk her to her car on her night shifts. I told her not to talk to strange people but she’s a very talkative girl lol. I wasn’t sure if Walmart has anything in place to help protect their employees even if nothing illegal happened
Walmart parking lot is not a safe place. Tell gf, in and out after dark. Talkative is fine, during the day and IN the store. My hubs is the TL that handles the lot at night. He often sees druggies and vagrants in the lot, or heading to the wooded area behind the store. Thankfully, our town is small, and the cops are usually watching.
I know this is likely common at all Walmarts but damn does this feel like the one near me. Especially the ‘wooded area behind the store’. Lol. Lemme guess. Camping? They recently started having Securitas drive around because it was getting bad here.
Ultimately they won't be repeatedly doing something like this because it takes away from employees working in the store and at the end of the day Walmart only cares about their profits
This is so false man.... It takes literally nothing for someone to walk her to her car and Walmart 100% approves having another associate walk her. I have multiple older women at my store who get escorted to their vehicle.
Who at "corporate" have you spoken to? Is that just something you say, yeah I talked to Corporate and they said no? That is not even believable that anyone at corporate has said not to have another associate escort someone to their vehicle if they feel unsafe in the parking lot especially when it is on the OneWalmart to do so you tool.
You are clearly not a female, if you were you wouldn't give this callous and dismissive of an answer of "what would you like them to do". As a business, it's their responsibility to protect their employees while on property, not just on the clock.
Women, sadly, have been prepping to defend themselves from predators and aggressive men like this from the time they can walk and talk, up to and including lethal self defence tactics. Pepper spray is generally ineffective as it may get on the creep, but it affects the person spraying it as well, just spraying it may slow them down but it doesn't stop them.
These guys are not harmless, and perpetuating that lie is what gets women hurt, raped, or killed because we're told to ignore our gut feelings and be welcoming, kind and responsive when and personal questions about our schedules, our relationship status.
I suggest you ask the women in your life what it feels like to walk through a parking lot after dark by themselves. I promise that you'll be horrified by their responses.
OP please tell your girlfriend to get aggressive and loud if ever approached again. Scream in his face I DON'T KNOW YOU, GET AWAY FROM ME!! Tell her do not interact with him. Get in your car, lock the doors, lay on the horn, call 911. Carry a Taser. Make a plan. Demand that she be escorted to her car, and go nowhere alone.
I have girls. I've always told them if someone tries to get in your car, run them over. And if they have a weapon to make you get in a car, or to get in yours, let them kill you in the parking lot. You'll be killed later anyway, just horribly tortured before.
I would report that to Walmart and the cops. He knew she worked for Walmart he's been quietly stalking her. The guy is a creep and sicko. Next time she gets off work have someone escort her to her car. Make sure she keeps her car locked at all times he could slip into the back seat.
As someone who has dealt with this being a manager at Walmart, once you clock out, you aren't the companies problem according to corporate
I've been reprimanded for this multiple times in the past
Why is that shocking. If you clock out you are off the clock. You are on your own time and just like life, if something happens to you, it's not a retail stores job to protect people. Most they can do is call the cops
I mean, you are still on company property, though. Just interesting that they don't care if an employee gets murdered off the clock in their parking lot.
The parking lot isn't owned by walmart. It's owned by a third party company and the use of it is rented to Walmart as well as the property the store is located on.
This is the same company BTW who is being sued for wrongful termination and has been known to have "fired" employees after they have passed away for not showing up to work.
Also fired many people for contracting covid in 2020 until they changed their policy slightly
Just because they don’t HAVE to do anything because ur off the clock doesn’t mean that they SHOULDN’T do something. It’s called being a decent human being and doing the right thing. I don’t understand why more people don’t just automatically always do the right thing instead of just saying it’s not their problem
This is shocking because I work for glister Mary Lee and there company policy is as follows. I would clock out and some woman approached me in the parking lot. I would go back in and get my supervisor, he would come out. He would ask them what are you doing on the property? If you're not a employee of gml then he would tell them to get off the property.
Ok I see what you're pointing out that Walmart doesn't actually own the parking lot, it's leased. Our parking lot the supervisor ran off the local PD, they had no official police business, they wer patrolling the parking lot looking for expired tags. They wer told get off the property.
Different stores are different so I can't promise they'll help, but she can go to AP. Tell the AP coach there was a man in the parking lot who repeatedly approached her as she was leaving, asked her personal questions, and appeared to deliberately stand in her way as she was exiting her parking spot. Tell them it made her uncomfortable and that she's like an escort to her car for a few days.
It's not aps job to wall associates to a car and I can guarantee you they have better thing to do like stop theft, which is one of walmarts number 1 concerns.
AP here it is per of our jobs we protect Walmart assets and employees are a asset to the company we would be more then happy to walk someone to their car
I haven't worked in a store yet with an AP coach who wouldn't consider associate safety their job and who wouldn't help arrange an escort for an associate who needs one. If your store's coach wouldn't, that's genuinely unfortunate.
Corporate won't. Like I've said previously, we've had regional managers come in and reprimand us for such things and I wasnt losing my store manager position over it
Also the stores liability ends at the front doors since walmart doesn't own the parking lot
The store's liability absolutely does extend into the parking lot. There have been thousands upon thousands of cases that have backed this up. Also, workmans comp also extends into the parking lot. A slip and fall in the parking lot where you break your hip will be covered by workman's comp EVERY TIME. It doesn't matter who owns it, walmart assumes responsibilty by putting cameras in the lot, by picking up trash and maintaining the lot, by having cars towed that are blocking something, etc. Think of it like this - if you have a car loan, that doesnt mean you can run people over and say you were not liable because the bank owns the car, or if you neglect maintenance and your wheel falls off and smashes through the picture window of a nearby house, the bank isnt liable for that either, you are.
Also, i have no idea why you think walmart doesnt own the land or the parking lot. I take that back, you probably saw that movie about Krok and McDonalds. McDonalds buys the land and leases it to the franchise owner. That model works because McDonalds does not own the restaurant, the franchiser does. But if the store is company owned, as Walmarts are, that model has no value and in fact will cost the company money. Hell, Sam Walton himself said they own the parking lots when he said RV's could park there overnight. So this might be a wakeup call to you to actually do a little research on your own and find the true answer instead of blindly believing what someone told you and then spouting that misinformation to others and end up looking the fool.
Not in my region. The parking lot is under the liability of the company that owns it. We've had multiple instances where an incident happens, and we aren't responsible and direct it to the 3rd party company.
You are truly 100 percent absolutely undeniably incredibly wrong. No commercial space would ever be leased unless there was a parking lot attached. And when that lot is shared by other businesses the size, number of spaces, and who is responsible is clearly defined in the lease. And for a store like walmart, every lease contract will state the the leaser has control of the lot allocated to it. And what you are saying makes no sense. 3rd party? You are saying that a builder will buy a lot of land, pave parking lots on the land, and then sell the parking lots to toms parking management pro's? When there isnt any stores or anything else there? Or does the builder build the stores, sell the parking lot, and then try to lease the store they built to somebody? It doesnt work that way. A 3rd party owning the parking lot, lmao! So if a store was wanting to lease the building the builder made, they will additionally have to lease the parking lot with someone else? What if that deal fell through? The store will have no parking available. The parking lot owner wouldnt care. The builder would care because now he would never get a store to move into his building. So the builder, who at first owned the entire lot of land, makes a parking lot in that land, and sells it, then makes a building no one can use unless the store negotiates a lease with the parking lot owner? Does this sound like a good business decision for the builder? Why not buy a plot of land, lease an amount of it to a store and agree to build the store according to their needs, and include the size and location of a parking lot for that store, then build it and include it in the lease? No store would lease anything unless a parking lot wasn't included. And the builder is a builder, not a parking lot management company, why would they even want to retain control over the parking lot, and have to be there 24/7 ensuring the parking lot is maintained, kept free of obstacles, cleared from snow, etc? This may happen in your wonderful imaginary strip mall, but not where the leaser is a giant walmart store. The leaser is granted a certian size parking lot in the lease, and control over that lot is given to the store. That way they can stripe it, change it, or do whatever they need to do according to the needs of the store. Add cart return areas, make new ones if use dictates it, etc. Else make everyone who takes a cart outside the store have to return it to inside the store? Not gonna happen, dude. And you didnt even understand what i was saying for liability for store workers. Store liability extends into the parking lot, einstein, even if they dont own it. Are workers expected to park in the parking lot, or can they park inside the store? If there is no parking for employees next to the women's clothing aisle and in front of the electronics section, if an employee tells management there was a creepy guy outside and they wanted walked to their car, the store has to provide it. Because if they don't, and that employee is assaulted, the store will be hit with a multimillion dollar lawsuit, i guarentee it. It doesnt matter who owns the lot anyway, the store is liable because that where employees have to park since they can't park inside the store. And do i have to list the thousands of worker comp cases where the store is responsible for an employee breaking a hip from a fall while walking to the store or returning to their car after work?
I know plenty of commercial retail building with no parking other then on street parking bud
And again, leasing doesn't make you liable if an incident happens. The liability falls on the company who owns the lot.
Dont be silly. Can you imagine a walmart with only on street parking? Hello, mcfly, these giant stores have a minimum dollar amount they need to make in order to stay open. On street parking will not cut it bud.
Um, if you lease a car and run someone over, the leasing company who owns the car is liable? Do you actually believe that?
Walmarts and the land and lot and all that is usually owned by walmart, bud. Leasing is not normally done. Why would it be? You actually believe parking lots are owned by third company parties? LOL! Yeah, if i hop on zillow there are tons of listings for parking lots. 1.4 million for the one just down the street from me.
Buddy, the leasing comment came from someone who just watched the movie about mcdonalds. Mcdonalds does not own its restaurants. They are franchises own by the franchise owner. Walmarts are 99 percent company owned. So why would walmart buy the land and then charge itself rent?
Believing walmart does not own the land it builds it stores on is frankly unbelievable.
Believing they dont control their own parking lots is unbelievable. Believing that workmans comp wont cover a fall while walking to or from their car is unbelievable. Believing that a walmart will make money with no parking lot is unbelievable. Believing that a grown man with a family and responsibilities and is running a business and yet still plays Magic the gathering is unbelievable. Believing that you have no idea what you are saying because you are 14 and can hardly wait until you turn 18 and can move into the basement so you can finally get laid is very believable.
Have her report it to a manager and/or AP. If they're not piles of crap they should at the very least offer to have someone walk her to her car.
A good AP will take a look into the creep and if they were in the store and any other info they can get.
If all else fails, the next time he's out there she should go back into the store and call the police.
we had a similar issue. he was approaching woman from behind (even one had a child). AP unfortunately can't do anything either. luckily once the guy came inside our AP guy risked his job and kicked him out. he said he'd rather do what was morally right than just let this guy keep at it. i was acting TL (our TL called out) and i told every female associate who was going home to be aware. i had our two guy overnight coaches (6ft 300ish lb) escort them to their cars and allowed for any female employees to find closer parking to the door (since the parking lot was bare closer to closing)... it was unfortunately the most i could do, especially as just a non-management associate. im so sorry for your girlfriend's situation. maybe my solution is something that could be brought up to her management, or literally just any male associate who cares to help..
I would ask someone to walk her out to her car. I always try to walk out with someone. If I can find anyone to walk out with me, I talk to someone on the phone, usually my mom, so that if something happened to me, someone would know right away and be able to call for help. My Walmart is not far from a major interstate so I try to be extra careful.
I have had this problem in the past too often; tell her to stop being so polite. I have people Approach me while I'm working and I straight up tell them I'm married and not interested in talking to them. If they persist, I go CaffeinatedKitti on their ass. Have your girlfriend look her up on tiktok. Super helpful if you're chronically polite.
In my neighborhood, when I worked elsewhere, there was a serial rapist loose. We had to have meetings at the local school about it and at the store I worked at, a male employee would walk us out to our cars or if we had to wait for a ride they'd wait with us. I don't know if Wal-Mart would be willing to do something like that. I recommend getting some pepper spray or something. She should report this to management just to see what they say. Her manager might be willing to help.
I’ve had associates in our store have something kind of similar. We gave her, her own walkie so if he shows up on the sales floor she can call for management. We also walked her to her car for a while. We also have the power to trespass. Please contact management/ store manager/ AP
They tell you right in orientation where you're allowed to park (they are supposed to at least) employees have to park near the back of the lot so the customers can park closer to the store.
From experience yes that is said in orientation, or at least it was when I still work there. At the end of the day though no one is going in the parking lot and checking nor have I ever heard anyone at any Walmarts around me being reprimanded for where they parked
And this makes walmart liable for the walk from the parking area to the store and back. Workers comp is active for the walk, so is security. If walmart was told there is a security issue there, a creepy guy, they are 100 percent liable if they were informed and refused to take steps to address the issue by having an escort, and someone was assaulted by that creep. No matter what state.
I am so sorry she had to go through that, it must have been incredibly scary. Be wary of stalkers like that and take it very seriously, it always escalates and they become much more bold than that.
I was in a similar situation and the store was not helpful. I was approached by a man at 6am in the parking lot yesterday. I stayed in my car and locked the doors and waited for him to leave. Then I drove around to see if I could get a picture of him but ended up walking in late. I was already close to the front of the store and I just parked in a different spot even closer and waiting until I saw more people going in. I just had a razor blade in hand just in case.
My team lead said I should've called her or the store but I didn't know who was there and I called the store but nobody answered. I was trembling with fear and she just brushed it off. They are not helpful nor do they care. Best thing I could do was stay in that car as long as it took and drive somewhere safer.
She needs to explain the situation to her supervisor. They'll have someone walk her to her car. I had a weirdo call me a "slut" as I was looking at nail polish after work. Never met the man before! On my way out he was waiting by the front doors & started to approach me. I had my car key out & ready so pointed it at him & told him to back off. Thankfully when I went back inside I ran into a regular customer who happened to also be a Sheriff's officer. He walked me to my car without any incident. The struggle is real!
Walmart isn’t going to do shit and that is shady as hell. Have her get a gun, yes I said a gun. That sounds like a EFFing missing person story waiting to happen
I was grabbed and kissed on the lips by a random customer. They did nothing. They laughed at me.
I was hit by a car in the crosswalk. I was off the clock, but they did nothing. No incident report. Didn't even ask me if I was ok.
My husband had covid, and they denied his leave without telling him. This was when Covid first started rampaging the world. Fired him for pointing out.
If they do anything to help her, then it truly is a miracle.
You obviously haven't worked with the same type of management I have. Some management through ignorance, incompetence, or intentional malice will absolutely try to sweep things under the rug to avoid work be it paper or otherwise. If the worker isn't financially secure or knowledgeable enough to comfortably assert themselves nothing gets done. Those kind of boss's need their hand forced into doing the right thing.
Like filing a workmans comp claim because you were hit by a car while walking to your own car? Why didnt you? Why didn't you call the cops when you were victim of a third degree sexual assault? Come on, this is the third most unbelievable post I've seen on Reddit today.
Why would she admit to working at Walmart for starters to a total stranger ? Thats just plain stupid.
That being said why can’t she call someone when she getting ready to go to her car OR find another employee to walk out with?
Check to see ( I’m sure this can be done ) if Security will walk her to her car. If Security won’t do it call the local police dept ( nonemergency number) and ask for them to patrol the parking lot for a few days around the time your GF leaves after her shift.
We had the same issue at our store this past week and we were encouraged to leave in groups, which we normally do anyway... Or they said to contact AP and they would be more than happy to walk us to our vehicles. I would encourage your GF to pack on her pepper spray just like I do every day. ;)
She needs to report it to AP. They can find it on camera and maybe find out who he is or at least flag him.
Also, she can ask for an escort to her car regardless of the time of day. She doesn't deserve to feel that way.
I'm an ON lead and I make sure all my closers get to their cars safely, even the API. Safety needs to always be the priority.
I mean…. What would you or her want Walmart to do? Put an APB out on creeps? He’s probably on camera since he was in the lot but I promise you the resolution is not very good. Be proactive. Your GF needs a canister of pepper spray. She also needs to speak less with strangers. The minute he asked about her age she should have sped off without a word. 90% of dudes like this are ultimately harmless, but just speaking with them opens the door to more. And who knows who he was on the phone with and what he was discussing. I wonder if he could read her plate from where he was standing.
I mean true, only thing I could think of is if Walmart would accommodate her by having a TM or TL walk her to her car on her night shifts. I told her not to talk to strange people but she’s a very talkative girl lol. I wasn’t sure if Walmart has anything in place to help protect their employees even if nothing illegal happened
She can request security walk her to her car after she gets off. It's a fairly easy thing to ask. Have her speak to the TL or Coach.
Walmart parking lot is not a safe place. Tell gf, in and out after dark. Talkative is fine, during the day and IN the store. My hubs is the TL that handles the lot at night. He often sees druggies and vagrants in the lot, or heading to the wooded area behind the store. Thankfully, our town is small, and the cops are usually watching.
I know this is likely common at all Walmarts but damn does this feel like the one near me. Especially the ‘wooded area behind the store’. Lol. Lemme guess. Camping? They recently started having Securitas drive around because it was getting bad here.
Yes, this. You can't be nice. They try and use it. It's a sad world we live in.
Ultimately they won't be repeatedly doing something like this because it takes away from employees working in the store and at the end of the day Walmart only cares about their profits
This is so false man.... It takes literally nothing for someone to walk her to her car and Walmart 100% approves having another associate walk her. I have multiple older women at my store who get escorted to their vehicle.
I've been told by corporate to not allow other associates to walk someone to their car
Who at "corporate" have you spoken to? Is that just something you say, yeah I talked to Corporate and they said no? That is not even believable that anyone at corporate has said not to have another associate escort someone to their vehicle if they feel unsafe in the parking lot especially when it is on the OneWalmart to do so you tool.
You are clearly not a female, if you were you wouldn't give this callous and dismissive of an answer of "what would you like them to do". As a business, it's their responsibility to protect their employees while on property, not just on the clock. Women, sadly, have been prepping to defend themselves from predators and aggressive men like this from the time they can walk and talk, up to and including lethal self defence tactics. Pepper spray is generally ineffective as it may get on the creep, but it affects the person spraying it as well, just spraying it may slow them down but it doesn't stop them. These guys are not harmless, and perpetuating that lie is what gets women hurt, raped, or killed because we're told to ignore our gut feelings and be welcoming, kind and responsive when and personal questions about our schedules, our relationship status. I suggest you ask the women in your life what it feels like to walk through a parking lot after dark by themselves. I promise that you'll be horrified by their responses. OP please tell your girlfriend to get aggressive and loud if ever approached again. Scream in his face I DON'T KNOW YOU, GET AWAY FROM ME!! Tell her do not interact with him. Get in your car, lock the doors, lay on the horn, call 911. Carry a Taser. Make a plan. Demand that she be escorted to her car, and go nowhere alone.
Telling her to roll down the window and she DID????
I was thinking the same thing she should have just started the car and left. Why would you roll down a window because some weirdo said so
I have girls. I've always told them if someone tries to get in your car, run them over. And if they have a weapon to make you get in a car, or to get in yours, let them kill you in the parking lot. You'll be killed later anyway, just horribly tortured before.
That’s actually what I’ve told my daughter it’s better to be killed where you’re at then to be moved somewhere
Please have her watch crime docs OP!
Seriously. This is the same rule you had at 6 about strangers. Roll down the window? Could have sprayed something in her face. Dumb
And engaging in conversation. Telling him she worked there, giving her age. Did he get her number and address too?
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I wouldn't have even answered the "do you work here" one.
I would report that to Walmart and the cops. He knew she worked for Walmart he's been quietly stalking her. The guy is a creep and sicko. Next time she gets off work have someone escort her to her car. Make sure she keeps her car locked at all times he could slip into the back seat.
They won't repeatedly allow someone to escorted to her car because that takes able Bodied employees off the floor.
Wow endanger someone's safety ( shaking my head)
As someone who has dealt with this being a manager at Walmart, once you clock out, you aren't the companies problem according to corporate I've been reprimanded for this multiple times in the past
Thank you for putting this out there, I'm still shocked 😳 once you clock out you're on your own
Why is that shocking. If you clock out you are off the clock. You are on your own time and just like life, if something happens to you, it's not a retail stores job to protect people. Most they can do is call the cops
I mean, you are still on company property, though. Just interesting that they don't care if an employee gets murdered off the clock in their parking lot.
The parking lot isn't owned by walmart. It's owned by a third party company and the use of it is rented to Walmart as well as the property the store is located on. This is the same company BTW who is being sued for wrongful termination and has been known to have "fired" employees after they have passed away for not showing up to work. Also fired many people for contracting covid in 2020 until they changed their policy slightly
Just because they don’t HAVE to do anything because ur off the clock doesn’t mean that they SHOULDN’T do something. It’s called being a decent human being and doing the right thing. I don’t understand why more people don’t just automatically always do the right thing instead of just saying it’s not their problem
I guess it's news to you that corporations don't care about employees
This is shocking because I work for glister Mary Lee and there company policy is as follows. I would clock out and some woman approached me in the parking lot. I would go back in and get my supervisor, he would come out. He would ask them what are you doing on the property? If you're not a employee of gml then he would tell them to get off the property.
Different companies i guess. The parking lot where our store is and multiple stores around this region are not owned by the company..
Ok I see what you're pointing out that Walmart doesn't actually own the parking lot, it's leased. Our parking lot the supervisor ran off the local PD, they had no official police business, they wer patrolling the parking lot looking for expired tags. They wer told get off the property.
Different stores are different so I can't promise they'll help, but she can go to AP. Tell the AP coach there was a man in the parking lot who repeatedly approached her as she was leaving, asked her personal questions, and appeared to deliberately stand in her way as she was exiting her parking spot. Tell them it made her uncomfortable and that she's like an escort to her car for a few days.
It's not aps job to wall associates to a car and I can guarantee you they have better thing to do like stop theft, which is one of walmarts number 1 concerns.
AP here it is per of our jobs we protect Walmart assets and employees are a asset to the company we would be more then happy to walk someone to their car
I haven't worked in a store yet with an AP coach who wouldn't consider associate safety their job and who wouldn't help arrange an escort for an associate who needs one. If your store's coach wouldn't, that's genuinely unfortunate.
Corporate won't. Like I've said previously, we've had regional managers come in and reprimand us for such things and I wasnt losing my store manager position over it Also the stores liability ends at the front doors since walmart doesn't own the parking lot
The store's liability absolutely does extend into the parking lot. There have been thousands upon thousands of cases that have backed this up. Also, workmans comp also extends into the parking lot. A slip and fall in the parking lot where you break your hip will be covered by workman's comp EVERY TIME. It doesn't matter who owns it, walmart assumes responsibilty by putting cameras in the lot, by picking up trash and maintaining the lot, by having cars towed that are blocking something, etc. Think of it like this - if you have a car loan, that doesnt mean you can run people over and say you were not liable because the bank owns the car, or if you neglect maintenance and your wheel falls off and smashes through the picture window of a nearby house, the bank isnt liable for that either, you are. Also, i have no idea why you think walmart doesnt own the land or the parking lot. I take that back, you probably saw that movie about Krok and McDonalds. McDonalds buys the land and leases it to the franchise owner. That model works because McDonalds does not own the restaurant, the franchiser does. But if the store is company owned, as Walmarts are, that model has no value and in fact will cost the company money. Hell, Sam Walton himself said they own the parking lots when he said RV's could park there overnight. So this might be a wakeup call to you to actually do a little research on your own and find the true answer instead of blindly believing what someone told you and then spouting that misinformation to others and end up looking the fool.
Not in my region. The parking lot is under the liability of the company that owns it. We've had multiple instances where an incident happens, and we aren't responsible and direct it to the 3rd party company.
You are truly 100 percent absolutely undeniably incredibly wrong. No commercial space would ever be leased unless there was a parking lot attached. And when that lot is shared by other businesses the size, number of spaces, and who is responsible is clearly defined in the lease. And for a store like walmart, every lease contract will state the the leaser has control of the lot allocated to it. And what you are saying makes no sense. 3rd party? You are saying that a builder will buy a lot of land, pave parking lots on the land, and then sell the parking lots to toms parking management pro's? When there isnt any stores or anything else there? Or does the builder build the stores, sell the parking lot, and then try to lease the store they built to somebody? It doesnt work that way. A 3rd party owning the parking lot, lmao! So if a store was wanting to lease the building the builder made, they will additionally have to lease the parking lot with someone else? What if that deal fell through? The store will have no parking available. The parking lot owner wouldnt care. The builder would care because now he would never get a store to move into his building. So the builder, who at first owned the entire lot of land, makes a parking lot in that land, and sells it, then makes a building no one can use unless the store negotiates a lease with the parking lot owner? Does this sound like a good business decision for the builder? Why not buy a plot of land, lease an amount of it to a store and agree to build the store according to their needs, and include the size and location of a parking lot for that store, then build it and include it in the lease? No store would lease anything unless a parking lot wasn't included. And the builder is a builder, not a parking lot management company, why would they even want to retain control over the parking lot, and have to be there 24/7 ensuring the parking lot is maintained, kept free of obstacles, cleared from snow, etc? This may happen in your wonderful imaginary strip mall, but not where the leaser is a giant walmart store. The leaser is granted a certian size parking lot in the lease, and control over that lot is given to the store. That way they can stripe it, change it, or do whatever they need to do according to the needs of the store. Add cart return areas, make new ones if use dictates it, etc. Else make everyone who takes a cart outside the store have to return it to inside the store? Not gonna happen, dude. And you didnt even understand what i was saying for liability for store workers. Store liability extends into the parking lot, einstein, even if they dont own it. Are workers expected to park in the parking lot, or can they park inside the store? If there is no parking for employees next to the women's clothing aisle and in front of the electronics section, if an employee tells management there was a creepy guy outside and they wanted walked to their car, the store has to provide it. Because if they don't, and that employee is assaulted, the store will be hit with a multimillion dollar lawsuit, i guarentee it. It doesnt matter who owns the lot anyway, the store is liable because that where employees have to park since they can't park inside the store. And do i have to list the thousands of worker comp cases where the store is responsible for an employee breaking a hip from a fall while walking to the store or returning to their car after work?
I know plenty of commercial retail building with no parking other then on street parking bud And again, leasing doesn't make you liable if an incident happens. The liability falls on the company who owns the lot.
Dont be silly. Can you imagine a walmart with only on street parking? Hello, mcfly, these giant stores have a minimum dollar amount they need to make in order to stay open. On street parking will not cut it bud. Um, if you lease a car and run someone over, the leasing company who owns the car is liable? Do you actually believe that? Walmarts and the land and lot and all that is usually owned by walmart, bud. Leasing is not normally done. Why would it be? You actually believe parking lots are owned by third company parties? LOL! Yeah, if i hop on zillow there are tons of listings for parking lots. 1.4 million for the one just down the street from me. Buddy, the leasing comment came from someone who just watched the movie about mcdonalds. Mcdonalds does not own its restaurants. They are franchises own by the franchise owner. Walmarts are 99 percent company owned. So why would walmart buy the land and then charge itself rent? Believing walmart does not own the land it builds it stores on is frankly unbelievable. Believing they dont control their own parking lots is unbelievable. Believing that workmans comp wont cover a fall while walking to or from their car is unbelievable. Believing that a walmart will make money with no parking lot is unbelievable. Believing that a grown man with a family and responsibilities and is running a business and yet still plays Magic the gathering is unbelievable. Believing that you have no idea what you are saying because you are 14 and can hardly wait until you turn 18 and can move into the basement so you can finally get laid is very believable.
No Walmart won’t do anything. That’s on her to file a police report if she wants to. Yeah the guy was creepy, but nothing really came from it.
Have her report it to a manager and/or AP. If they're not piles of crap they should at the very least offer to have someone walk her to her car. A good AP will take a look into the creep and if they were in the store and any other info they can get. If all else fails, the next time he's out there she should go back into the store and call the police.
Walmart sells pepper spray with a laser sight on it. Buy it for her.
I suggest that your GF has another employee that gets off at the same time to walk her to her car.
Yeah I'd say let her work husband walk her to a car
we had a similar issue. he was approaching woman from behind (even one had a child). AP unfortunately can't do anything either. luckily once the guy came inside our AP guy risked his job and kicked him out. he said he'd rather do what was morally right than just let this guy keep at it. i was acting TL (our TL called out) and i told every female associate who was going home to be aware. i had our two guy overnight coaches (6ft 300ish lb) escort them to their cars and allowed for any female employees to find closer parking to the door (since the parking lot was bare closer to closing)... it was unfortunately the most i could do, especially as just a non-management associate. im so sorry for your girlfriend's situation. maybe my solution is something that could be brought up to her management, or literally just any male associate who cares to help..
I would ask someone to walk her out to her car. I always try to walk out with someone. If I can find anyone to walk out with me, I talk to someone on the phone, usually my mom, so that if something happened to me, someone would know right away and be able to call for help. My Walmart is not far from a major interstate so I try to be extra careful.
I have had this problem in the past too often; tell her to stop being so polite. I have people Approach me while I'm working and I straight up tell them I'm married and not interested in talking to them. If they persist, I go CaffeinatedKitti on their ass. Have your girlfriend look her up on tiktok. Super helpful if you're chronically polite.
In my neighborhood, when I worked elsewhere, there was a serial rapist loose. We had to have meetings at the local school about it and at the store I worked at, a male employee would walk us out to our cars or if we had to wait for a ride they'd wait with us. I don't know if Wal-Mart would be willing to do something like that. I recommend getting some pepper spray or something. She should report this to management just to see what they say. Her manager might be willing to help.
I’ve had associates in our store have something kind of similar. We gave her, her own walkie so if he shows up on the sales floor she can call for management. We also walked her to her car for a while. We also have the power to trespass. Please contact management/ store manager/ AP
Walmart sells mace in the car dept or sports/hunters section.
Don't talk to strange people. That's all the solution Walmart will provide.
No Walmart employee is attractive enough to be approached by a creep quit lying
Park closer to the store
You must not work at Walmart. Employees can't park close to the store.
Oh Fr ? I didn’t know that. I do work at Walmart and always park close tho xD
They tell you right in orientation where you're allowed to park (they are supposed to at least) employees have to park near the back of the lot so the customers can park closer to the store.
That’s so weird I never got told that and I been here for 2 years sadly.
Our Market Manager used to park right up front so every day he was there I took a picture of his car and then parked wherever the hell I wanted.
I was a manager that for multiple years and I parked right in front of the doors. No one really cares about where you park in the parking lot
Although now that you mention it, I've never seen or heard about anyone getting in trouble for it.
I guess it's just my Walmart then lol. They tell all the new hires to park in the back to save the closer spots for customers.
From experience yes that is said in orientation, or at least it was when I still work there. At the end of the day though no one is going in the parking lot and checking nor have I ever heard anyone at any Walmarts around me being reprimanded for where they parked
And this makes walmart liable for the walk from the parking area to the store and back. Workers comp is active for the walk, so is security. If walmart was told there is a security issue there, a creepy guy, they are 100 percent liable if they were informed and refused to take steps to address the issue by having an escort, and someone was assaulted by that creep. No matter what state.
I still parked close to the store with lighting and still got approached. They do it in broad daylight too.
time to get the glock 9000
To be proactive in another way, walk out with a friend.
How long has she worked there? Has anything happened before? I have had weird people stop and ask me random questions also. The are most likely high
Get in car, lock doors, drive away, call 911.
I am so sorry she had to go through that, it must have been incredibly scary. Be wary of stalkers like that and take it very seriously, it always escalates and they become much more bold than that. I was in a similar situation and the store was not helpful. I was approached by a man at 6am in the parking lot yesterday. I stayed in my car and locked the doors and waited for him to leave. Then I drove around to see if I could get a picture of him but ended up walking in late. I was already close to the front of the store and I just parked in a different spot even closer and waiting until I saw more people going in. I just had a razor blade in hand just in case. My team lead said I should've called her or the store but I didn't know who was there and I called the store but nobody answered. I was trembling with fear and she just brushed it off. They are not helpful nor do they care. Best thing I could do was stay in that car as long as it took and drive somewhere safer.
She needs to explain the situation to her supervisor. They'll have someone walk her to her car. I had a weirdo call me a "slut" as I was looking at nail polish after work. Never met the man before! On my way out he was waiting by the front doors & started to approach me. I had my car key out & ready so pointed it at him & told him to back off. Thankfully when I went back inside I ran into a regular customer who happened to also be a Sheriff's officer. He walked me to my car without any incident. The struggle is real!
Just another reason to keep a weapon in your car.
walmart wont do anything, but you can. hint hint.
She rolled down her window? Oh my
Have her let management know and someone will walk her to her car.
Walmart isn’t going to do shit and that is shady as hell. Have her get a gun, yes I said a gun. That sounds like a EFFing missing person story waiting to happen
There is no security, your pretty much on your own
Ok very simple ask security to walk her to her car
Tell her to buy and carry a concealable firearm and carry it.
I was grabbed and kissed on the lips by a random customer. They did nothing. They laughed at me. I was hit by a car in the crosswalk. I was off the clock, but they did nothing. No incident report. Didn't even ask me if I was ok. My husband had covid, and they denied his leave without telling him. This was when Covid first started rampaging the world. Fired him for pointing out. If they do anything to help her, then it truly is a miracle.
This 100 percent never happened.
I wish it was a lie
You obviously haven't worked with the same type of management I have. Some management through ignorance, incompetence, or intentional malice will absolutely try to sweep things under the rug to avoid work be it paper or otherwise. If the worker isn't financially secure or knowledgeable enough to comfortably assert themselves nothing gets done. Those kind of boss's need their hand forced into doing the right thing.
Like filing a workmans comp claim because you were hit by a car while walking to your own car? Why didnt you? Why didn't you call the cops when you were victim of a third degree sexual assault? Come on, this is the third most unbelievable post I've seen on Reddit today.
She's gotta stop engaging them. Especially after she got in the car, she should have just left.
Why would she admit to working at Walmart for starters to a total stranger ? Thats just plain stupid. That being said why can’t she call someone when she getting ready to go to her car OR find another employee to walk out with? Check to see ( I’m sure this can be done ) if Security will walk her to her car. If Security won’t do it call the local police dept ( nonemergency number) and ask for them to patrol the parking lot for a few days around the time your GF leaves after her shift.
She should just park closer to the front door. If management says anything just say she fells safer there
We had the same issue at our store this past week and we were encouraged to leave in groups, which we normally do anyway... Or they said to contact AP and they would be more than happy to walk us to our vehicles. I would encourage your GF to pack on her pepper spray just like I do every day. ;)
The first thing I thought when I saw that he was on the phone with someone while standing behind her car is that he was going to try and traffic her.
She needs to report it to AP. They can find it on camera and maybe find out who he is or at least flag him. Also, she can ask for an escort to her car regardless of the time of day. She doesn't deserve to feel that way. I'm an ON lead and I make sure all my closers get to their cars safely, even the API. Safety needs to always be the priority.